Prophets versus Religiocrats

If the enduring takeaway from R. Scoot Appleby’s important book Ambivalence of the Sacred is that religion can be good and bad, it is unfortunately a diminished lesson. This binary misses the more robust potential of Appleby’s legacy, which encompasses peace studies, policy, the global engagement wi...

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Nebentitel:Symposium: Essays in Honor of R. Scott Appleby
1. VerfasserIn: Omer, Atalia ca. 20./21. Jh. (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group [2020]
In: The review of faith & international affairs
Jahr: 2020, Band: 18, Heft: 2, Seiten: 115-118
RelBib Classification:AA Religionswissenschaft
AX Interreligiöse Beziehungen
NCD Politische Ethik
weitere Schlagwörter:B religion and violence
B religion and peacebuilding
B Fundamentalism
B religion and neoliberalism
B Religious Literacy
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Zusammenfassung:If the enduring takeaway from R. Scoot Appleby’s important book Ambivalence of the Sacred is that religion can be good and bad, it is unfortunately a diminished lesson. This binary misses the more robust potential of Appleby’s legacy, which encompasses peace studies, policy, the global engagement with religion, and development theory. The bureaucratization of religion and the emergence of a sphere of “religiocrats” point to a failure to appreciate Appleby’s engagement with prophetic religiosity and religious action. Revisiting the theoretical foundations of Appleby illuminates this potential for expanding the scope of theory and practice of religion and global politics.
ISSN:1931-7743
Enthält:Enthalten in: The review of faith & international affairs
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/15570274.2020.1753961